SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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American Revolution
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Haitian Revolution
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Extravagant lifestyle of monarchy
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the marriage between Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
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Detailed explanation-1: -The attack by the Third Estate on the Bastille State Prison (14th July 1789) setting free the prisoners sparked the ‘Revolution’. The extravagant lifestyle of the monarchy brought France to the verge of bankruptcy and hastened the Revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -French Absolutism was a style of monarchy where the monarch had absolute power based on divine right.
Detailed explanation-3: -Louis XVI was the absolute monarch of France in the years leading up to the French Revolution. At the beginning of Louis XVI’s reign, France was under the Ancien Regime which was a system based on absolute monarchy and the feudal traditions of the estates system.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1789, food shortages and economic crises led to the outbreak of the French Revolution. King Louis and his queen, Mary-Antoinette, were imprisoned in August 1792, and in September the monarchy was abolished.